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Survey on Additive Manufacturing, Cloud 3D Printing and Services
Cloud Manufacturing (CM) is the concept of using manufacturing resources in a
service oriented way over the Internet. Recent developments in Additive
Manufacturing (AM) are making it possible to utilise resources ad-hoc as
replacement for traditional manufacturing resources in case of spontaneous
problems in the established manufacturing processes. In order to be of use in
these scenarios the AM resources must adhere to a strict principle of
transparency and service composition in adherence to the Cloud Computing (CC)
paradigm. With this review we provide an overview over CM, AM and relevant
domains as well as present the historical development of scientific research in
these fields, starting from 2002. Part of this work is also a meta-review on
the domain to further detail its development and structure
Development of GIS in urban planning agencies in Serbia – experiences of town Planning Institute of Belgrade
Transition reforming processes in Serbia during past two years created prosperous environment for very complex activities of
numerous aid agencies. Owing to some of them the knowledge level about modern concepts and approaches in the field of strategic
and urban development is significantly raised in big cities. Especially important was the impact and the effect of building
governmental capacities action. During the last year on the highest governmental levels and in some prosperous local governments
consciousness of ICT support importance in contemporary urban development management process is higher than ever. Now the
problem is lack of capabilities for defining of comprehensive and coordinated action plan, which will initiate the development of
primary ICT tools on a city level. On the other hand a large number of local planning agencies started with their own reorganization
trying to increase efficiency and effectiveness, and most often they recognized an ICT support as a right way to do it. In many cases
local GIS is initiated and basically performed by the planning agency without of local government initial support, but soon after had a
acceleration role in further institutional ICT development.
In a first place, this paper will provide the oversight of ICT development levels in municipalities of Serbia. Interesting is that public
institution ICT development is more rapid in some smaller municipalities than in Belgrade. Therefore, the paper will be more
concentrated on presenting the process and problems of ICT development of City of Belgrade public institutions and governmental
levels. Under the very difficult conditions Town Planning Institute as a major planning agency in Belgrade is making the big effort to
increase work efficiency and effectiveness by using ICT tools. Of course, on an agency organization level the process of ICT
implementation is suppressed with new problems. This paper will at the end present the overview of 6 month pilot project of
initializing and conceptualizing the IS of planning agency and the results that ICT team succeeded to achieve. As a conclusion the
action program for 2004. will be presented
SpECTRE: A Task-based Discontinuous Galerkin Code for Relativistic Astrophysics
We introduce a new relativistic astrophysics code, SpECTRE, that combines a
discontinuous Galerkin method with a task-based parallelism model. SpECTRE's
goal is to achieve more accurate solutions for challenging relativistic
astrophysics problems such as core-collapse supernovae and binary neutron star
mergers. The robustness of the discontinuous Galerkin method allows for the use
of high-resolution shock capturing methods in regions where (relativistic)
shocks are found, while exploiting high-order accuracy in smooth regions. A
task-based parallelism model allows efficient use of the largest supercomputers
for problems with a heterogeneous workload over disparate spatial and temporal
scales. We argue that the locality and algorithmic structure of discontinuous
Galerkin methods will exhibit good scalability within a task-based parallelism
framework. We demonstrate the code on a wide variety of challenging benchmark
problems in (non)-relativistic (magneto)-hydrodynamics. We demonstrate the
code's scalability including its strong scaling on the NCSA Blue Waters
supercomputer up to the machine's full capacity of 22,380 nodes using 671,400
threads.Comment: 41 pages, 13 figures, and 7 tables. Ancillary data contains
simulation input file
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